Lake  Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg 


Webster,  Mass. 


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LAKE     CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUGG 

The  Boundary  Fishing  Place 
The  Neutral  Meeting  Ground 


The  first  settlers  had  hardly  grown  familiar  with  Plymouth  and  with  Boston  before 
stories  of  fair  lands  and  of  a  great  lake  came  to  win  the  restless  ones  inland.  The  Indian 
Trails,  which  the  white  man  afterwards  followed,  led  to  its  borders  and  its  refreshing 
waters. 

The  story  of  these  gentle-bred  refugees  in  the  new  land,  striving  to  rebuild  their  lives, 
is  one  of  the  most  interesting  tales  of  New  England.  The  Lake  and  the  nearby  plains 
of  Oxford  were  a  part  of  the  great  Nipmuck  country.  South  of  the  lake  were  the 
Narragansetts  and  the  Pequots;  to  the  West  the  Mohicans.  History  tells  us  the  name 
means  "the  fishing  place  of  the  boundary." 

Tradition  has  it  that  the  great  inland  lake  was  the  neutral  ground  of  many  Indian 
tribes,  their  fishing  and  watering  place.  Its  peculiar  formation  of  peninsulas,  little  bays 
and  rugged  shores,  its  clear  waters,  its  sandy  beaches  for  bathing,  amply  justify  the 
legends  that  come  down  to  the  people  of  to-day. 

Samuel  Slater,  the  father  of  the  cotton  manufacturing  industry  in  America,  had  a 
small  mill  in  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  and  he  became  impressed  with  the  lake  as  a  location  for 
large  industrial  development  and  out  of  his  investigations  in  1811  grew  the  birth  of 
the  broadcloth  industry  and  the  development  of  the  cotton  industry.  To-day  the  great 
Slater  Mills  are  Webster's  largest  industry. 

The  canoes  of  the  white  man  now  float  about  where  the  redman  paddled;  many  fine 
cottages  have  been  built;  thousands  of  bathers  flocks  to  the  sandy  shores  in  the  Summer 
and  visitors  are  welcomed  from  all  parts  of  the  country. 

The  fame  of  "The  Lake  with  the  Long  Name"  has  travelled  far! 

rUBLlSHED     HY 

LARCHAR   &  BRAXCH.  Inc. 

WEBSTER,      MAfeH. 


BEACON    PARK 


Jmit^fiM 


SAILING    ON    THE    LAKE 


THE    NARROWS 


YOLANDE  HOUSE 


VIEW    FROM    YOLANDE    HOUSE 


POINT   PLEASANT 


LONG    ISLAND 


POINT  BREEZE 


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BATES    GROVE 


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COTTAGES,    BATES    GROVE 


VIEW   FROM    WAWELA   PARK 


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KILDEER.    FROM    THE    NARROWS 


